society & culture

DEAD AIR #84 by Hayley West

DEAD AIR is sponsored by Trash Cult; venue, bar, film, book & record store. Located at 15 High Street, in the Burra of Eaglehawk.

Taboo Education, YouTube - Breaking News: The 'Return to Nature Funeral Home' Scandal

Channel 9: Families 'given fake ashes' as 189 bodies left uncremated

The Tibetan Book of the Dead - On Demand Course

NDAN Presents - Janine Marriott, Cemeteries as Living Spaces. Sat 4 Nov 2023, 7-9PM AEST

Living Well, Dying Better Workshops, Harcourt. Day 1 - Sat 28 Oct, 10am-4pm ($180) & Day 2 – Sun 29 Oct, 9am-1pm ($120) E: doulabarb60@gmail.com M: 0419545093

TRACKS: Hangman – ZÖJ / Departure – ISUA / Chadology – Noël Akchoté & Eugene Chadbourne

DEAD AIR #83 by Hayley West

DEAD AIR is sponsored by Trash Cult; venue, bar, film, book & record store. Located at 15 High Street, in the Burra of Eaglehawk.

The When You Die Trilogy, documentaries.

'Victorian nurse becomes first voluntary assisted dying patient to donate organs' - The Law Report, ABC.
Voluntary Assisted Dying - Victorian State Government website
Organ and Tissue Donation - Victorian State Government website
Donation Registration - Australian Federal Government website

'At least 115 Bodies found in a Colorado ‘green’ funeral home' - The Guardian.

Mexican Day of the Dead & Lucha Fantastica events, Melbourne.

TRACKS: Ultimate Hammer – Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs / Kill To Be Heard – OFF! / Golden Birdies – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band / Cruising – Eugene Dubon / Fat Hans Gone Mad – Party Dozen

DEAD AIR #82 by Hayley West

DEAD AIR is sponsored by Trash Cult; venue, bar, film, book & record store. 15 High Street, in the Burra of Eaglehawk.

‘Undas: Celebrating Death Through Life in the Philippines’ Talk Death article

The Cemetery Research Group and the Virtual Colloquium 17/11/23 online

‘The Facemaker ‘by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris, Guardian book review

Speaking Grief website (USA) - Grief Shaming & Grief Hijaking

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. [Rumi]

TRACKS: Teen Dusthead - Acid King / Cathedral - Yellow Eyes / (iii) moribund - Faetooth / You Take Nothing - Ragana / Monolith - Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou